"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...

"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--

"A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"--

"In an unprecedented demographic shift, Latinos will comprise a third of the American population in just a matter of decades. While their influence shapes everything from electoral politics to popular culture, many Americans still struggle with two basic questions: Who are Latinos, and where do they fit in America's racial order? Laura E. Gómez, a leading expert on race in America, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans,...

"Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuą--gathered in one magnificent volume."--Amazon.

Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (1868-1927) es un novelista venezolano. Su narrativa constituye uno de los momentos de mayor vigor y robustez en la literatura de su país. Aunque no cultivó la lírica, Manuel Díaz Rodríguez figuró entre los más militantes modernistas de Venezuela. Sus primeros libros, como Confidencias de Psiquis (Caracas, 1896), Sensaciones de viaje(París, 1896) donde se incluye el artículo «Alrededor de Nápoles», publicado anteriormente...

Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death is a vivid testimony of the most horrendous kind of mental and physical cruelties that we can inflict on our fellow men. Patrick Lemoine’s harrowing tale about his years of imprisonment in one of the worse dungeons in the world will stand as a constant reminder that our basic freedoms, when taken for granted, can be trampled by the very ones elected or selected among us to be sentinels of society. Jonathan Demme,...

Dos generaciones marcadas por las cicatrices de la guerra. Una lucha ya sin rumbo, ni sentido, cargada del ambiente hostil que causa la rutina del conflicto. La Guerra de los Mil Días marcó un momento en la historia colombiana, cargado de avaricia, ansias de poder, violencia y terror, que aún retumban en las páginas de esta novela.

Este libro introduce una mirada esencial sobre la historia de la democracia en Chile y la suma de esfuerzos tendientes a construir un estado de derecho moderno, cuyo desarrollo económico y social nos encamine efectivamente a la igualdad de oportunidades. Frente a la idea común de que el país ha tenido instituciones excepcionales en la región, o de aquella otra, opuesta, que considera su democracia como una simple máscara de autoritarismo, el...

Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens, the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse of modernity based on secular...